Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 9/29/2011 4:03 AM, David Brown wrote:

> One challenge for getting apprentices in this particular area is the
> hardware costs. For someone to be able to really help you out in
> development and serious testing of md, they are going to need access to
> a machine with plenty of disks, preferably with hotplug bays and with a
> mix of hdds and ssds. That's going to out of reach for many potential
> assistants - it is hard enough finding someone with the required talent,
> interest and time to spend on md/mdadm. Finding people with money -
> especially people using md raid professionally - should be a lot easier.
> So if there is anyone out there who is willing and able to contribute
> seriously to md/mdadm, but is hindered by lack of hardware, then I for
> one would be willing to contribute to a fund to help out.

Almost a dozen different people from Intel have contributed code 
recently.  I would think such folks wouldn't have any problem getting 
access to all the hardware they could need given Intel's financial 
resources.  Seems like a good recruiting pool.

-- 
Stan